The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Sheffield, Suzanne. "The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum." Peninsula Pacemaker 26 (August 1997): 14-16.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Talbot County, Chesapeake Region
Steele, Ann E. "A Short History of the BMI's Exhibits and Programs." Nuts and Bolts 9 (Special Anniversary Edition 1991): 4-5.
Notes: This administrative history includes a very useful list of "Highlights of the Museum's Exhibits and Programs" which provides an excellent history of the museum during its first ten years.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Valliant, John R. "Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum: Our First Thirty Years." Weather Gauge 31 (Spring 1995): 4-9.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Talbot County, Chesapeake Region
Walker, Grant H. "New Light Shed Below-Decks." Naval History 9 (April 1995): 48-52.
Wennersten, John R. "The Calvert Marine Museum." Maryland 17 (Summer 1985): 35-38.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Calvert County, Chesapeake Region
Wennersten, John R. "One Man's Museum: Brannock Maritime Museum." Maryland 20 (Summer 1988): 46-49.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Chused, Richard H. Private Acts in Public Places: A Social History of Divorce in the Formative Era of American Family Law. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
"Divorce in Maryland." Newsletter of the Maryland Archives 1 (October 1984): 7.
Margolin, Samuel G. Lawlessness on the Maritime Frontier of the Greater Chesapeake, 1650-1750. Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1992.
Categories: Maritime, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Rottier, Catherine M. "Ellen Spencer Mussey and the Washington College of Law." Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (Winter 1974): 361-82.
Sweig, Donald. "A Capital on the Potomac: A 1789 Broadside and Alexandria's Attempts to Capture the Cherished Prize." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 87 (January 1979): 74-104.
Categories: Maritime, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century
Thurlow, Katharine. "Profiles." Maryland Bar Journal 19 (June 1986): 24-25.
Notes: Pioneer female lawyers in Maryland.
Categories: Politics and Law, Women
Van Ness, James S. "On Untying the Knot: The Maryland Legislature and Divorce Petitions." Maryland Historical Magazine 67 (1972): 171-175.
Categories: Politics and Law, Women
Garitee, Jerome R. The Republic's Private Navy: The American Privateering Business as Practiced Baltimore during the War of 1812. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, Published for Mystic Seaport, Inc., 1977.
Notes: The British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812 was motivated by a desire to punish the city for being a nest of republicans and privateers. This book traces in admirable detail the history of privateering - from the ships, outfitting, captains and crews, investors, their successes and failures, through the distribution of the prize money. While the pirates on the Spanish main may have been the dregs of the sea, Baltimore's privateers were underwritten by some of its leading mercantile and political leaders. The book includes useful appendices identifying the privateers, investors and proceeds.
Categories: Maritime, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, War of 1812
Abribat, Beverly. "The Jefferson Island Club." Weather Gauge 24 (Fall 1988): 10-21; 25 (Fall 1989): 8-14.
Bentley, Amy. "Wages of War: The Shifting Landscape of Race and Gender in World War II Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Winter 1993): 420-43.
Notes: Bentley examines the impact of the dramatic changes occasioned by World War II-era production in Baltimore. In terms of race, while Jim Crow patterns prevailed in various arenas, most notably housing, new employment opportunities eventually became available as well, especially in such critical industries as steel and other war-related industries. Similarly, the role of women in employment expanded even as traditional roles were reaffirmed. Bentley argues that new wartime values challenged conventional stereotypes regarding race and gender and provided the basis for eventual changes.
Categories: African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Ellis, Carolyn. Fisher Folk: Two Communities on the Chesapeake Bay. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1986.
Notes: A sociological case study of two traditional water-economy Chesapeake Bay communities, one in tidewater Virginia and the other on the islands of Maryland, both assigned pseudonyms in social science convention. Ellis contends that these isolated settlements retain distinctive elements of traditional culture, even as they increasingly are drawn into contact with and impacted by outside forces. Based on extensive field research conducted in the 1970s and early 1980s, this study examines family and kin, work, social organization, the role of religion, and mechanisms of social control. Ellis concludes with consideration of the prospects for the future in terms of preservation or change for traditional Chesapeake area communities.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Gibb, James G., and Julia A. King. "Gender, Activity Areas, and Homelots in the 17th-Century Chesapeake Region." Historical Archaeology 25 (1991): 109-131.
Notes: Using archaeological records and spatial analysis from three Southern Maryland tobacco plantation sites, the authors provide an ethnographic look at life for seventeenth-century Maryland colonists in terms of gender and class roles. The article provides a brief overview of the economics of the Chesapeake region, the structure of living arrangements, and the gendered nature of tasks. The evidence suggests how gendered and class-based activities contributed to both household production and accrued wealth. The authors conclude that comparisons between the three sites provide the basis for understanding how household wealth was a direct corollary of the ability to secure a large work force and to develop a high degree of specialization.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Seventeenth Century, Calvert County, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Harris, JoAnn. "Claire McCardell: Maryland's Fashion Prophet." Maryland 7 (Winter 1974): 2-5.
Horton, Tom. An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake. New York, W. W. Norton and Company, 1996.
Notes: Horton's title suggests his principal themes in examining Smith Island life: that the islands represent a distinctive way of life rooted in another time whose preservation into the future may literally be running out of time. An environmental columnist for the Baltimore <em>Sun</em> who lived on Smith Island in the late 1980s as an environmental educator with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Horton examines the water-related economy, traditionally based on oystering and crabbing, and the unique way of life that evolved in the relative isolation of the island communities. His book profiles the personalities of Smith Island, the work of men and women, the pervasive role of religion in island life, and social, economic, and environmental changes threatening the island's future.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Lesher, Pete. "Eastern Shore Summers: Waterfront Guest Houses and Hotels in the Age of Steam." Weather Gauge 35 (Fall 1999): 18-23.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Mills, Eric. Chesapeake Rumrunners of the Roaring Twenties. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 2000.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Neverdon-Morton, Cynthia. African-American Women of the South and the Advancement of the Race, 1895-1925. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.
Categories: African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Norton, M. B. "Gender, Crime, and Community in Seventeenth-century Maryland." In The Transformation of Early American History, edited by James A. Henretta, Michael Katz, and S. N. Katz, 123-150. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1991.
Rice, James D. "Laying Claim to Elizabeth Shoemaker: Family Violence on Baltimore's Waterfront, 1808-1812." In Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City